A splinter group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a car bomb and gun attack that left two people dead in the Turkish city of İzmir.
The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) said one of its "revenge teams" had carried out the attack in the usually peaceful Aegean city on January 5, in a statement carried by the pro-PKK Fırat news agency.
Fırat news agency, quoting a statement by the group Wednesday, identified the attackers as "comrades" Mustafa Çoban and Enes Yıldırım, aged 29 and 25 respectively.
TAK threatened "new acts of revenge against the fascist Turkish state."
TAK has claimed multiple attacks in the past year, including two bombings that killed 45 people near a soccer stadium in İstanbul last month.
